'Middle class only bothers about itself'
'When it comes to the upliftment of the OBCs/STs/SCs, the middle class say looking after the poor is the government's business,' says Knowledge Commission member Dr P M Bhargava.

'Sachin will be fine'
'He knows what his body is telling him but he has had some bad luck recently; that's all!' says former India physio Andrew Leipus.

May 19, 2006

'India is buzzing'
'Even in the slums I do sense a sense of possibility that wasn't there before,' says the BBC's Stephen Sackur.

May 16, 2006

'What more do the upper castes want?'
'They have 50 per cent of total seats whereas the upper class population is just 15 per cent. I think that is good enough.' says Udit Raj, Chairman, SC/ST Federation.

'It's a lie that CPI-M is anti-reform'
'Our reform policies are always people friendly. The problem with the Congress government is that its reform policies are only meant for the party leaders to make money,' says V S Achuthanandan, Kerala's next chief minister.

May 11, 2006

'CPI-M not out to destabilise UPA'
'We are 61 parliamentarians in a House of 542. We are very clear what our strength is. Our victory ensures that now you cannot bulldoze any policy, which is not pro-people,' says CPI-M MP Brinda Karat.

May 08, 2006

'I will not loot the people'
'The others have been looting the people all these years. If you don't do that, you can do a lot for the people,' says Tamil star politician Vijayakanth.

‘The Uzbek people love India’
‘In almost every Uzbek family you may listen music from the most popular modern Indian movies,’ says Uzbekistan’s charge d’affaires Prof Saydakmal S Saydaminov ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the country.

'Both India and China look down on each other'
'The Indians feel they have a much stronger intellectual system, a much stronger political system, with debates, and courts and freedom. The Chinese think the Indians kind of waste their time on all these debates and things,' says China expert James L McGregor.